The Team You'll Be Joining

Our educational leadership team includes top teachers and researchers with a variety of backgrounds. Our Program Directors are national leaders in Pediatrics. Our faculty members are diverse with broad representation in all fields. Most importantly, our residents as your colleagues are outstanding peers, colleagues, and teammates. We work hard together, but also have fun in a supportive environment.

As a large residency, we have a large team of dedicated faculty educators. The core Program Leadership is listed below. In addition, we receive immeasurable support and active participation from faculty, residents and educational support staff.

Program Directors and Leadership

Jerry Rushton MD, MPH

Pediatric Program Director

Jerry is in his 13th year as Program Director. He was previously a resident and Chief at IU. He was a fellow at the University of North Carolina and completed an MPH at UNC. Dr. Rushton was on faculty at the University of Michigan in General Pediatrics and Health Services Research. He has published several articles on ADHD and mental health disorders in primary care and medical education. Dr. Rushton's clinical practice is at Riley Hospital in the outpatient General Pediatrics clinic. He has served on the National Board of Program Directors (APPD), AAP national committees, and is currently on the National Gold Humanism Advisory Council.

Tim Brady

Program Director for Medicine-Pediatrics

Tim grew up in Cincinnati, OH and attended Northwestern University for his undergraduate degree and the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine for medical school. He completed his Med/Peds residency training at Indiana University. Immediately after completing residency, he joined the faculty and has been involved in medical education with all levels of learners. He works in both the inpatient and outpatient medical settings which includes a med/peds continuity clinic, the pediatric urgent visit clinic and the general internal medicine wards at Eskenazi Hospital. He has received multiple teaching awards including the Morris Green Teaching Award for Pediatrics, the Internal Medicine Distinguished Teaching Award, the Med/Peds Attending of the Year and three Trustee Teaching Awards.

D. Wade Clapp, MD

Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Clapp is a neonatologist and physician-scientist who completed his training at Indiana and Case Western. His research work has been pioneering in neurofibromatosis and Fanconi Anemia.

His team's research in the Wells Center has translated into clinical trials and improved care. Wade is also a dedicated teacher and mentor, serving in the past as Chief Resident at

Riley and as the previous director of the IU MD/PhD training program, and the Green Scholars Physician-Scientist Program. He is in his sixth year as Chairman of Indiana Pediatrics.

Mary Ciccarelli, MD

Associate Chair for Education of the Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Ciccarelli is the first graduate of the IUSM Medicine Pediatric residency. She gained experience in community primary care settings before joining the faculty and then served for thirteen years as the Medicine Pediatric residency director. She currently serves as the associate chair for pediatric education and director of the statewide transition support program, the Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood. She is a past president and past long-term advisor for the Medicine Pediatric Program Directors’ Association. She is an advisory board member for the National Center for Health Care Transition and participates in the Health Care Transition Research Consortium. As Associate Chair, she oversees the educational mission of the department across students, residents, fellows and faculty.

Michael McKenna, MD

Associate Program Director

His clinical responsibilities include precepting continuity clinics at the Pediatric and Adolescent Care Center at Methodist Hospital and staffing the newborn nursery at Methodist Hospital. Michael went to medical school at the IU School of Medicine, remained there for his pediatrics residency and was named as one of the Chief Residents. He joined the PD Team in April 2010 and organizes the EBM curriculum, resident retreats and the IU Chief Resident Workshop. He is the chair of the residency Clinical Competency Committee and is also Assistant Dean of Career Mentoring at the IU School of Medicine.

Lori Price, MD

Associate Program Director and Director of Continuity Clinics

After attending the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for medical school, Dr. Price did her first two years of pediatric residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, then transferred to Johns Hopkins for her last year. She was in private practice for almost 11 years before joining the faculty in 2007. She is a continuity clinic preceptor as well as the Medical Director at the Pediatric and Adolescent Care Center (PACC). She is also the Pediatric Continuity Clinic Director.

Adam B. Hill, MD

Associate Program Director

Dr. Adam B. Hill is a palliative care physician at Riley Hospital for Children. Dr. Hill is a proud Hoosier, a Butler Bulldog and an IUSM graduate. He completed his pediatric residency training at St. Louis University, a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Duke University and a palliative medicine fellowship at IUSM. His work in palliative care is focused on allowing patients to live the best quality of life possible, in the midst of chronic, life-limiting and/or life threatening medical conditions. In addition to palliative care, Dr. Hill is passionate about physician wellness/self-care, physician education, and international medical work. His international work has allowed him to work in Belize, Mexico, Kenya, Tanzania and Australia over the past several years. In addition, as part of his work in palliative care, he serves as the medical director for a week long summer camp for children affected by childhood cancer.